Re: Charles Clarendon Crossley d. 1908 from PA

Tim, thank you for your reply. The links and info you provided have helped me piece together a lot of information.

After my first post, I found Valois Crossley's birth certificate from 1940 (obviously obtained by him as an adult). His birth certificate states the same information that I found in the letter that he wrote:

The birth certificate was typed, but written in below his typed mother's name was the spelling "Laudusky". I'm under the impression that Valois knew how to pronounce his mother's name but didn’t know how to spell it.

The 1871 Canada census lists Lodusky as being six years old at the time, living with her mother Sarah Ann Patterson, 23, who was married at the time. https://www.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_153004060%2Fp_172976806&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D

According to the 1900 U.S. census, Lodusky had six children, apparently all sired by Charles Crossley. I have been able to find info on five of them:

No information on her then-husband, Charles, is listed in the 1900 census. I have found more information on him that I will list in a follow-up post. It has been known in my family that Charles was a drinker towards the end of his life and that he died by getting hit by a train while walking on the railroad tracks.

The 1910 U.S. census has Lodusky listed as “Ladusca J Ceaser”, with David J. Ceaser as her husband/head of household and a Floyd J. Crossley, age 16, with a relationship of “step son” to the head of household.